Intensive Recap – ReOrganizing

 

The thing I most took away from the intensive review was that I am not making my argument in a coherent method. I have been focusing tightly on "making buildings" rather than on proving or disproving my statement.

With that in mind I am going to step back and try and re(organize) my project and put some coherence to the argument.

Or as Tom suggested: Put an outline of the slides that I wish I had for last Sunday:

 

• Problem Statement (Abstract)
  
  • Disconnected Site
    
  • Disconnected People    
    
• Thesis Statement
  
  • The two disconnections can be framed using architecture to reconnect the area and the people to the larger community and city
    
• Methods of Inquiry
  
  • Documentation of Franklinton as enclave
    
    • Historical nature of settlement
      
      • Political boundary in Virginia Military District
        
        • Early Settlement
          
      • Flooding
        
      • Freeway & Rail
        
  • Research of Refugees
    
    • CRIS as a prototype organization
      
  • Examination of temporal nature of site / place as a way to root into site
    
    • Phenomenology as a link to place specific
      
  • Transit
    
    • Light rail examples and transit oriented development
      
• Site Analysis
  
  • Franklinton Large Scale Analysis
    
    • Landmarks
      
    • Transportation
      
    • Arrival and departure on neighborhood scale
      
    • City Scale buildings
      
      • Cosi
        
      • Vets Memorial
        
      • Mt Caramel Hospital
        
      • Missing services
        
        • Grocery is absent
          
        • Small commercial is absent
          
        • Walkable defined area is absent
          
        • Small scale health clinic as outreach would be helpful
          
        • No branch library
          
          • This is present in West Franklinton but could be augmented
            
  • Mid Scale Analysis
    
    • Neighborhood Character
      
      • Fabric of surrounding buildings
        
        • Size and scale
          
        • Materials
          
      • Multifamily / single family mix
        
      • Warehousing
        
      • Automotive lots
        
        • Sales
          
        • parking
          
      • Small scale Civic buildings
        
        • Elementary School
          
        • Churches
          
        • Parks & Recreation Centers
          
      • Spaghetti Warehouse
        
  • Site Specific Characteristics
    
    • Site Views
      
    • Site surroundings
      
    • Potential links for connection
      
      • Rail
        
      • road
        
• Design Narrative
  
  • Goal of economic integration
    
    • Transit as an offering of inverted commuting
      
  • Goal of transit as link to larger community
    
  • Goal of community integration
    
  • Goal of education / accultuarion services
    
  • Goal of proximity co-housing as a way to foster acculturation.
    
  • How to make permanence out of transience.
    
    • Use of vacant sites as homesteading opportunities.
      
• Design Process
  
  • Sketch Problem
    
    • Trying to combine civic, cultural & community into singular building didn't work
      
• Programming Diagram
  
  • How many people on site
    
    • How many people from community
      
    • What are essential activities of acculturation process
      
    • What are methods of connection to neighborhood
      
  • Community-Cultural
    
  • Residential CoHousing as a strategy
    
    • Over commercial start up space
      
  • Market as temporal space
    
    • Opportunity for economic reciprocation    
      
• Site Plan and strategy
  
  • Plans
    
  • Sections
    
  • Perspectives
    
  • materials
    
• Commercial-cultural
  
  • Plans
    
  • Sections
    
  • Perspectives
    
  • Structure
    
  • materials
    
  • mechanical strategy
    
• Market-Grocery
  
  • Plans
    
  • Sections
    
  • Perspectives
    
  • Structure
    
  • materials
    
  • mechanical strategy